[OpenIndiana-discuss] 2021.04_rc1 on Z840 crashes after install

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Wed Apr 21 22:00:52 UTC 2021


On 4/21/21 2:31 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
> The Xorg server is loading both the nvidia driver and the vesa driver. Is that 
> likely to cause a crash? I don't understand what is causing it to load the vesa 
> driver as it doesn't seem to find an xorg.conf file and uses a builtin.

When there is no xorg.conf, it's normal for Xorg to load multiple drivers 
(usually including vesa) as part of the probe routines, and then once it's
found a driver to use, to unload the rest.  This shouldn't cause a crash.

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